with whom I
traverse
earth,
Invisible but gazing, as I glow
Mixed with thy spirit, blended with thy birth,
And feeling still with thee in my crushed feelings' dearth.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Here, then, we rest: "The
Universal
Cause
Acts to one end, but acts by various laws.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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For the brood beyond us and of us,
For those who belong here, and those to come,
I, exultant, to be ready for them, will now shake out carols stronger and
haughtier
than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
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Whitman |
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To shield and free
Humanity!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
fountains
mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle--
Why not I with thine?
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Golden Treasury |
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Get up, get up for shame, the
blooming
morn
Upon her wings presents the god unshorn.
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Robert Herrick |
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Most righteous, and most just,
avenging
Heaven!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He passed through Kiukiang on his way,
and released the
prisoners
there.
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Li Po |
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If one as herald came with rueful face
To say, _The curse has fallen, and the host
Gone down to death; and one wide wound has reached
The city's heart, and out of many homes
Many are cast and
consecrate
to death,
Beneath the double scourge, that Ares loves,
The bloody pair, the fire and sword of doom_--
If such sore burden weighed upon my tongue,
'Twere fit to speak such words as gladden fiends.
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Aeschylus |
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There is some noise outside--a high vexing noise,
so that I can't be
listening
to myself.
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Yeats |
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Lo the Lilly pale & the rose reddning fierce
Reproach thee & the beamy gardens sicken at thy beauty {According to Erdman, beneath and below these 2 lines are about 11 erased pencil lines, the first [partially recovered]
beginning
'XXX she wails,' the following 2 the same as the existing lines, and the remainder apparently different from the final text EJC}
I grasp thy vest in my strong hand in vain.
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Blake - Zoas |
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That whatso-
ever they can do of that kind is, at uttermost, to im-
power men by their authority and commission, no
otherwise than in the
licensing
of midwives or physi-
cians.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
Oure lord hym
graunted
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Saveliitch
exclaimed, joy painted on his face--
"He is coming to himself!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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All are at peace, who once so
fiercely
warred:
Brother and brother, now, we chant a common chord.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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If you had a witch for your client you would not be
able to manage her
defence!
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Robert Forst |
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How
pleasant
and beautiful it is to be
At last obedient to love!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[Sidenote A: The bowmen send their arrows after this wild swine,]
[Sidenote B: but they glide off
shivered
in pieces.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then we ask'd from Jove a sign,
And by a sign
vouchsafed
he bade us cut
The wide sea to Euboea sheer athwart,
So soonest to escape the threat'ned harm.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But, one all-fired sweatin' day,
It
happened
I was hoein'
My lower corn-field, which it lay
'Longside the road that runs my way
Whar I can see what's goin'.
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Sidney Lanier |
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PREFACE
There is something grotesque in the idea of a prose
translation
of a
poet, though the practice is become so common that it has ceased to
provoke a smile or demand an apology.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I
challenge
thee to hurry past
Or for my turn to fly too fast.
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Emerson - Poems |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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703
founded]
found out 1674.
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Milton |
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Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine
Must drown the memory of that
insolence!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And be your words submissive: heed this well;
For weak ye are, outcasts on
stranger
lands,
And froward talk beseems not strengthless hands.
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Aeschylus |
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Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
—
The
changeless
regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in friendship with the stars.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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[Illustration]
There was an old Person of Cromer,
Who stood on one leg to read Homer;
When he found he grew stiff, he jumped over the cliff,
Which
concluded
that Person of Cromer.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Mantillas
elsewhere
hide dull eyes--
Compared with these, how small!
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Why, you
whoreson
round man, what's the matter?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Well, of
sufferance
comes ease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Woman is the
blood-royal of life: let there be slight degrees of
precedency
among
them--but let them be ALL sacred.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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415 "Þā mē þæt
gelǣrdon
lēode mīne,
"þā sēlestan, snotere ceorlas,
"þēoden Hrōðgār, þæt ic þē sōhte;
"forþan hīe mægenes cræft mīnne cūðon:
"selfe ofersāwon, þā ic of searwum cwōm,
420 "fāh from fēondum, þǣr ic fīfe geband,
"ȳðde eotena cyn, and on ȳðum slōg
"niceras nihtes, nearo-þearfe drēah,
"wræc Wedera nīð (wēan āhsodon)
"forgrand gramum; and nū wið Grendel sceal,
425 "wið þām āglǣcan, āna gehegan
"þing wið þyrse.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Luther, Martin, his first
appearance
as Europa.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And the leaves, brown, yellow, and gray, and red,
And white with the
whiteness
of what is dead, _35
Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind passed;
Their whistling noise made the birds aghast.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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In Yen and Chao are many fair ladies,
Beautiful
people with faces like jade.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Cobham's a coward, Polwarth is a slave,
And
Littelton
a dark, designing knave,
St.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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They wasted o'er a
scorching
flame
The marrow of his bones;
But a miller us'd him worst of all--
He crush'd him 'tween the stones.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Let us rather love to mark
How the
unextingnished
spark
Still gleams through the thin disguise 179
Of our customs, pomps, and lies,
And, not seldom blown to flame,
Vindicates its ancient claim.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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"
So saw I fluctuate in successive change
Th'
unsteady
ballast of the seventh hold:
And here if aught my tongue have swerv'd, events
So strange may be its warrant.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you
received
the work from.
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Tennyson |
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It should be borne in mind that at the time
this poem was written
literary
warfare more or less open was
being waged between two hostile schools of Russian men of
letters.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A woman, if her mind
So turn, can light on many a
pleasant
thing
To fill her board.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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_65
This
quicksilver
no gnome has drunk--within
The walnut bowl it lies, veined and thin,
In colour like the wake of light that stains
The Tuscan deep, when from the moist moon rains
The inmost shower of its white fire--the breeze _70
Is still--blue Heaven smiles over the pale seas.
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Shelley |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Lawrence
the
Bay of Chaleur, or of warmth; but they said nothing about the winter
being as cold as Greenland.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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41 Catullus: Currite ducenti sub tegmine
currite fusi ||
_subtegmina_
(_a_ ex _e_) O
330 om.
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Latin - Catullus |
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II I accept frailty and white hair in my life, in lonely
isolation
now at the ends of the earth.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Your hands have no
innocent
blood on them, no stain?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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3 *Regard the *weak and
fatherless
*Shiphtu-dal.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Whereupon
a child began
With spirit running up to man
As by angels' shining ladder,
(May he find no cloud above!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"
The conversation was
interrupted
at this point, to the great regret of
the young girl.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Pittheus,
accounted
wise amongst all men,
Deigned to instruct me when I left her hands.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Sansonet, Guido, follow, with the pair
Or
brethren
bold, Marphisa terrified.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And the Golden Grouse came there,
And the Pobble who has no toes,
And the small Olympian bear,
And the Dong with a
luminous
nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"BETWEEN US NOW"
BETWEEN us now and here--
Two thrown together
Who are not wont to wear
Life's
flushest
feather--
Who see the scenes slide past,
The daytimes dimming fast,
Let there be truth at last,
Even if despair.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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NOTE: Though written and engraved by Blake, "A DIVINE IMAGE" was never
included in the SONGS OF
INNOCENCE
AND OF EXPERIENCE.
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blake-poems |
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, which was given him back,'
doubtless
by his brother William.
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John Donne |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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" said Eviradnus, and he cried,
"Arrange between yourselves, you two allied;
If hell-fire were extinguished, surely it
By such a contest might be all relit;
From
kindling
spark struck out from dead King's brow,
Batt'ring to death a living Emperor now.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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"Drink," said the lady, sad and slow--
"_World's love_
behoveth
thee to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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So
slumbered
the stout-heart.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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CCXVI
Through all the field dismount the Frankish men,
Five-score
thousand
and more, they arm themselves;
The gear they have enhances much their strength,
Their horses swift, their arms are fashioned well;
Mounted they are, and fight with great science.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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May a just heaven reward you, as you deserve:
And may your punishment forever serve 1320
To terrify those whose like cowardly address,
Nourishes wretched princes in their weakness,
Urges the inclination of their hearts, and then
Dares to smooth the path of crime for them:
Detestable flatterers, the most deadly gift 1325
That
celestial
anger offers royalty!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Do you know it, the Temple with vast peristyle,
And the lemons, bitter, marked by your teeth,
And the grotto fatal to
imprudent
guests,
Where the vanquished dragon's ancient seed sleeps?
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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The Parliament to which Herrick alludes was
actually
summoned in
January, 1624, to meet on February 12.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Meanwhile
welcom Joy, and Feast,
Midnight shout, and revelry,
Tipsie dance, and Jollity.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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there is a higher gospel, overhead the God-roof springs,
And each glad, obedient planet like a golden shuttle sings
Through the web which Time is weaving in his never-resting loom,
Weaving seasons many-colored,
bringing
prophecy to doom.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Tell me, why is it ye are discontent,
You, Cardinals
Salviati
and Marcello,
With Michael Angelo?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Rugged it is, not
yielding
level course
To the swift steed, and yet no barren spot,
However small, but rich in wheat and wine; 290
Nor wants it rain or fertilising dew,
But pasture green to goats and beeves affords,
Trees of all kinds, and fountains never dry.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Charlevoix
says that the first
horses were introduced in 1665.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Then came what might come, to wit: three men and
one woman,
Beziers off at Mont-Ausier, I and his lady Singing the stars in the turrets of Beziers, And one lean
Aragonese
cursing the seneschal To the end that you see, friends:
Aragon cursing in Aragon, Beziers busy at Beziers Bored to an inch of extinction,
Tibors all tongue and temper at Mont-Ausier, Me!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
An
immortal
hand is charged with his end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And thou, my son,
With what art thou
employed?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And
suddenly
the sultan kneels!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Sentius was
presumably
another
member of their party.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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The house that was the
happiest
within the Roman walls,
The house that envied not the wealth of Capua's marble halls,
Now, for the brightness of thy smile, must have eternal gloom,
And for the music of thy voice, the silence of the tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And
afterwards
you
kissed me, kissed me and said in ten years I'd be _your_
princess, and you'd come back and give me a castle in
Spain--a kingdom--
SOLNESS (_open-mouthed_): _I_ did?
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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What means
This
overpowering
tremor, or this quivering
Of tense desire?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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You've now regarded with awe all the structures which lie here in ruins,
Cultivated your eye, sensing each
hallowed
space.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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" said the old man, "I
understand
now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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His
blinding
light
He flingeth white
On God's and Satan's brood,
And reconciles
By mystic wiles
The evil and the good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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--and be pitiful,
As ye
translate
that word, to the dethroned
And exiled, man or angel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Rimbaud eut le tort incontestable de
protester
d'abord entre haut et bas
contre la prolongation d'a la fin abusives recitations.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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That
one, whom ye see
strutting
awkwardly, stagily, and stiffly, and with a
laugh on her mouth like a Gallic whelp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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595
Phaedra
If you hated me, I would not
complain
of it,
My Lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
LXIX
As in this course to o'erleap a ditch he sought,
Head over heels, she with her rider went:
Nor harmed was he, nor felt that tumble aright;
But she, with
shoulder
slipt, lay foully shent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was trickling through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And
offering
me her flickering tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
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Elvire
Through his efforts those two kings were won;
His hand
conquered
them, he was the one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I give thee back thy false,
ephemeral
vow;
But, O beloved comrade, ere we part,
Upon my mournful eyelids and my brow
Kiss me who hold thine image in my heart.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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What, parde, yet is not
Criseyde
a-go!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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So bashful when I spied her,
So pretty, so
ashamed!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Why is the light of [[Vala]] Enitharmon darken'd in her dewy morn *
Why is the silence of [[Vala
lightning]]
Enitharmon a Cloud terror & her smile a whirlwind *
Uttering this darkness in my halls, in the pillars of my Holy-ones
Why dost thou weep [[O]] as Vala?
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Blake - Zoas |
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50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man,
The river
Euphrates
flowing, the past lit up again.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The salt marshes of Glynn County, Georgia,
immediately
around
the sea-coast city of Brunswick.
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Sidney Lanier |
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e water
wonderly
depe,
788 [B] Ande eft a ful huge he3t hit haled vpon lofte,
Of harde hewen ston vp to ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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tum me non humilem mirabere saepe poetam,
tunc ego Romanis praeferar ingeniis;
nec
poterunt
iuuenes nostro reticere sepulcro
'Ardoris nostri magne poeta, iaces.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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